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The long migration of the humpback whale

Summer feeding grounds Winter breeding grounds Probable resident population

Summer and winter relates to seasons in the northern Hemisphere.

Sources: adapted from CONABIO, Informe final del Proyecto W024: La ballena jorobada (Megaptera novaeangliae) en la Norma Oficial Mexicana, 2002.

Figure 16: Humpback whale migrations.

Humpback whale movements within the South Pacific

Tropic of Cancer

Hawaii

Federal States of Micronesia

Palmyra Atoll

Papua New Guinea

Tokelau

Tuvalu

American Samoa

Vanuatu Solomon Iss.

Sources: UNEP/CMS MoU on the Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region; Garrigue, C. et al., Movement of individual humpback whales between wintering grounds of Oceania (South Pacific), 1999 to 2004 , J. Cetacean Res. Manage, in press Inter-annual movements of humpback whales between different over-wintering grounds in the South Pacific Area covered by the MoU on the Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region Exclusive Economic Zone Countries participating in the MoU on the Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region

Samoa

Fiji

New Caledonia

Tonga Niue

French Polynesia

Australia

Cook Iss.

Pitcairn

Norfolk Island

New Zealand

130⁰ E

120⁰ W 60⁰ S

Figure 17: Humpback whale movements in the South Pacific.

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